Romi Park

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.
Romi Park
Born January 22, 1972 (1972-01-22) (age 40)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation Voice actor
Japanese name
Kanji 朴璐美
Hiragana ぱく ろみ
Katakana パク・ロミ
Hepburn Paku Romi
Korean name
Hangul 박로미
Hanja 朴璐美
Revised Romanization Bak Romi
McCune-Reischauer Pak Romi

Romi Park (朴 璐美 Paku Romi?) born January 22, 1972 is a Japanese-Korean actress and voice actor born in Edogawa, Tokyo. Though born, raised and living in Japan, her nationality is Korean since her family decided to remain Korean for last two generations since their coming to Japan. She graduated from the Tōhō Gakuen College of Drama and Music, and studied Korean language in Yonsei University's Korean Language Institute (한국어학당) At the first Seiyū Awards, she won "Best Main Character (female)" for her portrayal of Nana Osaki. Her most well-known roles are usually tough, calm, and mature preteen or teenage boys who are often called prodigies in their fictional universes (for example, Tao Ren, Tōshirō Hitsugaya, Edward Elric, and Natsume Hyūga). Her female roles also fit the "tough/punk lady" archetype (Temari from Naruto, Nana Osaki and Teresa in Claymore).

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Name

Because the first hanja in her given name, 璐 (ro), doesn't exist as a kanji in most popular Japanese encodings like JIS X 0208, her name is usually written differently by Japanese internet users to avoid using the gaiji 璐, which may not display properly on many computers and is cumbersome to input. For example, the Japanese language Wikipedia entry writes her name as 朴ロ美. (See Japanese language and computers for more on character encoding problems.)

Voice roles

Leading roles in bold

Television animation

Television live-action

Drama CD

Video game roles

Dubbing roles

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